" ... Now I give you something that few think about: What do you think the Internet is all about, historically? Citizens of all the countries on Earth can talk to one another without electronic borders. The young people of those nations can all see each other, talk to each other, and express opinions. No matter what the country does to suppress it, they're doing it anyway. They are putting together a network of consciousness, of oneness, a multicultural consciousness. It's here to stay. It's part of the new energy. The young people know it and are leading the way.... "

" ... I gave you a prophecy more than 10 years ago. I told you there would come a day when everyone could talk to everyone and, therefore, there could be no conspiracy. For conspiracy depends on separation and secrecy - something hiding in the dark that only a few know about. Seen the news lately? What is happening? Could it be that there is a new paradigm happening that seems to go against history?... "Read More …. "The End of History"- Nov 20, 2010 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll)

Have you seen innovation and invention in the past decade that required thinking out of the box of an old reality? Indeed, you have. I can't tell you what's coming, because you haven't thought of it yet! But the potentials of it are looming large. Let me give you an example, Let us say that 20 years ago, you predicted that there would be something called the Internet on a device you don't really have yet using technology that you can't imagine. You will have full libraries, buildings filled with books, in your hand - a worldwide encyclopedia of everything knowable, with the ability to look it up instantly! Not only that, but that look-up service isn't going to cost a penny! You can call friends and see them on a video screen, and it won't cost a penny! No matter how long you use this service and to what depth you use it, the service itself will be free.

Now, anyone listening to you back then would perhaps have said, "Even if we can believe the technological part, which we think is impossible, everything costs something. There has to be a charge for it! Otherwise, how would they stay in business?" The answer is this: With new invention comes new paradigms of business. You don't know what you don't know, so don't decide in advance what you think is coming based on an old energy world. ..."

Sunday, February 26, 2017

Outcry as White House bars top US media from briefing

An empty podium is seen at an off-camera briefing held with a small group of reporters and White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer in the White HouseFebruary 24, 2017 (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

Washington
(AFP) - Major US media outlets condemned as "unacceptable" and an
"insult to democratic ideals" a decision by President Donald Trump's
White House to bar several organizations, including CNN and The New York Times,
from a daily press briefing.

In an
escalation in the administration's war on the media, the White House Friday
excluded some outlets that have provided critical coverage from an off-camera
event that replaced the traditional on-camera daily briefing.

Friendly
conservative outlets like Fox News, the One America News Network and Breitbart
News were allowed to attend, while the BBC, The Los Angeles Times and others
were excluded.

Trump on Friday
decried the media as the "enemy of the people," a day after his top
strategist promised relations with the press will get "worse every
day."

A number of
news outlets that regularly cover the White House as part of the
"pool," including newswires Reuters and Bloomberg, attended the
briefing.

The
Associated Press boycotted in protest. AFP protested being excluded, despite
being in the "pool," and attended the briefing uninvited.

The White
House Correspondents Association said it was "protesting strongly"
against the White House decision, and promised to bring it up with White House
staff.

During the
off-camera briefing spokesman Sean Spicer said that the White House has shown
an "abundance of accessibility... making ourselves, our team and our
briefing room more accessible than probably any previous administration."

It is not
uncommon for Republican and Democratic administrations to brief select
reporters, but the event was initially billed as a regular briefing open to
credentialed media.

CNN anchor
Jake Tapper decried the move as "un-American."

"This
is an unacceptable development by the Trump White House," CNN's
communications department wrote on Twitter.

"Apparently
this is how they retaliate when you report facts they don't like. We'll keep
reporting regardless."

The New
York Times wrote in an editorial that the exclusion was an "unmistakable
insult to democratic ideals."

The White
House Correspondents Association said it was "protesting strongly"

against the decision to only allow a small group of reporters being briefed
during an

Several
outlets refered to a December interview in which Spicer told Politico that the
Trump White House would never ban a news outlet. "Conservative, liberal or
otherwise, I think that's what makes a democracy a democracy versus a
dictatorship," he said.

"Greatest threat to democracy"

Media
organizations were not alone in defending the free press.

"Trump
is supposed to be a public servant, and the truth is a public good," said
Robert Reich, a UC Berkeley economist, former labor secretary and a prominent
Democratic figure.

"But
he continues to lie incessantly, and punish media that call him out,"
Reich wrote on Facebook. "These are the sort of antics we'd expect from a
two-bit dictator but not from the President of the United States."

John Dean,
the White House counsel for Republican president Richard Nixon in the 1970s,
described the Trump media bashing as "more Nixonian than Nixon."

Nixon
blasted the media as "the enemy" behind closed doors, Dean, 78, told
the Democracy Now! radio show on Friday.

"The
big difference is, Trump is doing this right out" and challenging the US
constitution's first amendment that guarantees freedom of speech and of the
press. He described it as "very startling and very troubling."

"Nixon
failed, and he had a deep reservoir of ill will to draw on when he got himself
in real trouble. And I think Trump is creating the same problem for
himself."

Trump's
hostility towards the press "may be the greatest threat to democracy in my
lifetime," said William McRaven, a retired admiral and Navy SEAL who
oversaw the raid that killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in 2011.

McRaven
made the remarks at the college of communication at the University of Texas at
Austin, according to the student newspaper. McRaven became head of the UT
system after retiring in 2014.

"Flaws
and all, I believe the free press is our country’s most important
institution," McRaven, who has a degree in journalism, added in a blog
post Thursday.

The United
States "has the finest press corps in the world, bar none," he wrote.

INTERNET / CYBERSPACE

"... Now I give you something that few think about: What do you think the Internet is all about, historically? Citizens of all the countries on Earth can talk to one another without electronic borders. The young people of those nations can all see each other, talk to each other, and express opinions. No matter what the country does to suppress it, they're doing it anyway. They are putting together a network of consciousness, of oneness, a multicultural consciousness. It's here to stay. It's part of the new energy. The young people know it and are leading the way.... "

"... I gave you a prophecy more than 10 years ago. I told you there would come a day when "everyone could talk to everyone and, therefore, there could be no conspiracy." For conspiracy depends on separation and secrecy - something hiding in the dark that only a few know about. Seen the news lately? What is happening? Could it be that there is a new paradigm happening that seems to go against history? ..."Read More …. "The End of History"- Nov 20, 2010 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll)